The latest weekly KDE development report has been released, highlighting changes for the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.7 branch set to be launched in June. Some of the recent updates include:
- An added function for checking microphone settings, enabling users to record and playback recordings to evaluate microphone sensitivity.
- In the KWin composite manager, support has been added for virtual framebuffers that interchange when using multiple GPUs (multi-GPU swapchain). Additionally, Vulkan graphics API support has been implemented in the DRM backend, which will lead to improved performance in multi-GPU setups in the future. Current performance of various GPU combinations when using Vulkan is on par with OpenGL.
- Support for xdg portal Notification has been added to facilitate setting up and displaying notifications from sandboxed applications like those in Flatpak format.
- Improvements have been made to the screen selection dialog for broadcasting or sharing to other systems, enhancing thumbnail visualization and displaying desktop wallpaper as a background. Check out the visuals here.
- Users can now add additional widgets with clocks for different time zones, highlighting time differences from the current zone. View the different time zones here.
- In the Discover application manager, applications are now sorted by number of reviews by default (sorting by rating can be changed in settings). Furthermore, irrelevant elements have been
/Reports, release notes, official announcements.